Dutch performance artist Jeroen Offerman has been doing a similar trick for a few years, except to the screamy and epic "Stairway to Heaven", complete with backward air-guitar solos. He does the whole 8-minute thing live (on stage, or in the iteration I saw, in public in front of nonplussed passers-by), then reverses the tape, adds a karaoke track and makes minor tempo adjustments to keep them synced up, and plays it back.

Unfortunately, it isn't available online, but there is some more info here.

Middle Class Guy said...I like the line, Jose can you see... He was speaking to the illegal aliens.

Yes, it was a dog whistle to the racist, right wing, xenophobic, islamophobic, homophobic, capitalist, Republican, fascist war machine that has burned the constitution stolen our civil liberties and is now working to steal another election like they did in 2000/2004.

I guessed what he was doing early on but didn't guess the song....dlo dna derit m'I esuac.

Our national anthem is as good in either direction. What I want to hear is the retrograde inversion in a 6-part crab canon (cancrizans). Turn Bach or Schoenberg loose on it, I don't care. It could only improve it.

My own taste in a national anthem runs to America the Beautiful or even Columbia the Gem of the Ocean—anything but that odd paean to the War of 1812.

My objections are not the dreary antique ones from my youth in the 60's—you know, it's too violent, too chauvinistic, etc., etc. If you want violent, try the Marseillaise. Now that's a national anthem.

No, my problem with the Star Spangled Banner is that it just sucks. It's hard to sing, and the words are dumb. I know it's too late to do anything about it, so I'll just register my objections and shut up. But I would vote for any Presidential candidate (even Ron Paul) who promised to get rid of the damn thing.

Hard to sing? That's half the fun of it. The melody is an old drinking song. You're supposed to be drunk. Just plunge right in. As for the War of 1812... it's not as if we started it. And while there are bombs in the song, the songwriter is looking at the bright side — figuratively and literally — as their light makes the flag visible during the night.